Rare fossils from three of the late-Triassic marine reptiles found in Swiss Alps include 10cm tooth – big enough to snag giant squid
The remains of a huge sea creature with enormous teeth that could have helped it capture giant squid have been found in the Swiss Alps.
The team said the findings helped resolve the conundrum of whether giant ichthyosaurs, like some smaller species of the creatures, had teeth. A fossil from one of the beasts was an incomplete tooth 10cm in length. The team found an enormous vertebra and rib fragments relating to another. The fossils of the third included seven large vertebrae. Sander said none of the remains appeared to be of known species of ichthyosaur.
But they are not the largest ichthyosaurs known to have lived. Among other finds, a toothless jawbone discovered in the Bristol channel is thought to have belonged to an ichthyosaur that was about 26 metres long.Photograph: Stocktrek Images/Alamy
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